Knives Quotes · Page 4

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

— Emmanuel Jal

I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.

— Roger Federer

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

— Anonymous

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

— James Brown

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

— Natsuki Takaya

You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?

— Richelle Mead

I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.

— Emraan Hashmi

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

— James Brown

After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they’d cleaned out an armory.…

— Nalini Singh

Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

— Richard Kadrey

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he…

— Mark Twain

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a…

— Yann Martel

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

— Barten Holyday

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

— Meera

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.”

— James Joyce

I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from…

— Aron Ralston

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you…

— Baroness Orczy

Many comedians consider themselves to be cutting edge. But why do we have to use the knife for the analogy. Let's use…

— Brian Regan

Did you see those Iraqis making that pilgrimage slashing their foreheads with knives and whipping their backs with chains. See, when Saddam…

— Jay Leno

It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious…

— Anonymous

I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky…

— Joseph Heller

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and…

— Steven Pinker

[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the…

— Denis Johnson

[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness…

— E. J. Dionne

Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting…

— Stacey D'Erasmo

What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all…

— Kiersten White

I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains…

— Melinda Clarke

I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm…

— Frank Sinatra

Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One , Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the…

— John Dee

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to…

— Charles Dickens

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not…

— Veronica Roth

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

— Rick Riordan

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

— Teresa Giudice

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

— Andre Norton

Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife…

— Judy Sheindlin

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

— Julie Garwood

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

— Josh Sundquist

“Glad I can trust the two of you with steak knives. Let's eat.”

— Elissa Sussman